Collins Aerospace has won a contract valued at up to $472m from the US Army to deliver engineering services for the CH-47 Chinook fleet.
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Northrop Grumman announce the development of a 50mm gun-based platform during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama
With Hurricane Sandy threatening the United States’ east coast, Robin Walbridge still planned to set sail.
Walbridge, captain of the HMS Bounty, intended to leave New London, Connecticut, on Thursday, October 25, 2012, as scheduled. St. Petersburg, Florida, was the ship’s destination. Being out on the ocean during a hurricane is dangerous for any ship, but Walbridge believed a vessel was safer at sea than it was tied up in port.
Stars & Stripes
The Navy declined to say when Reagan might next be deployed.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering
The Army wants to make its CH-47 Chinooks easier to upgrade as avionics technology changes.
Military Times
The deployment, which was anticipated to end in May, has been extended with no publicly announced return date.
Air & Space Forces
The Pentagon’s top research lab is interested in developing a hypersonic cruise missile prototype that provides “a revolutionary leap in operational performance”
Recent assessments of the China’s aircraft carrier program has indicated that it is increasingly developing around a different strategic concept to that of the U.S. Navy, with the People’s Liberation Army Navy expected to use carriers as components of a broader regional military system, rather than replicating the American model of globally deployed carrier strike groups. Brendan Mulvaney, director of the China Aerospace Studies Institute observed to this effect: “Just because they have the same kinds of equipment doesn’t mean they will use it in the same way as the U.S.
Editor’s note: This is the eighth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.